Recent-Style Poetry: Pentasyllabic Regulated Verse - Dancing with Shackled Feet: Art of Recent-Style Poetry

This episode explains the lexical, syntactic, and structural rules of regulated verse and shows how high Tang masters turn these formal rules into a nonpareil vehicle of projecting their visions of the universe and the self, as evidenced in Du Fu’s famous poem “Spring Scene.” Host: Zong-qi Cai, Lingnan University of Hong Kong; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign